Another censorship wedge...

All R-Rated Films To Be Treated Like Porn In South Australia

Maybe all lazy parents should move to South Australia, because everyone's favourite state government seems to want to do all your parenting for you. The South Australian government is now enforcing a law that requires all R-rated films for sale or hire to be segregated from all other movies of a lower rating. Not only that, but advertising R-rated films will also be illegal.

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A little bit of censorship starts a rash of censorship. It becomes a competition between various governments to censor because this is held up to be a constructive thing to do to make children safe. Who doesn't want to make children safe. I never speed through school zones. I don't trip children in the supermarket. I don't smash beer bottles in sand pits. All of these things can be shown to do harm to children. People arguing for censorship need t show how children are being harmed by adult material. There was adult material when I was a child. It hasn't harmed me. What has harmed people has been weird reactions to sex that are illustrated by the calls for censorship. If a child sees an adult movie, and you can't tell me that the Bruno or The Hangover covers can possibly harm children unless some moralising fool teaches them an adverse reaction. The hysterical flapping of hands and tutting causes the child to be upset. They just don't see things. I didn't notice porn in my house for years until I really got going with puberty, suddenly they were interesting to me and I snuck a peek, then another, and so on...

So, parents out there, understand that this material probably wont harm children if they aren't exposed to it too heavily (not arguing that all children should watch adult movies) so that your reaction is appropriate.